WBUR TODAY: The elephants in the room
❤️ Donate Tuesday, November 25, 2025 ⛅ Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Good Morning Boston, It's a leave-early kind of Tuesday. The 2026 election is more than 11 months away. But today we're taking Massachusetts' simmering Republican gubernatorial primary off the back burner for a closer look. We asked, they answered: Three well-funded Republicans have launched campaigns campaigns to challenge incumbent Democratic Gov. Maura Healey next year. And as WBUR’s Chris Van Buskirk reports, a key focus of the race is how the state’s governor should deal with President Trump. The Trump administration has hit Massachusetts with a series of ICE raids , yanked permits for green energy projects, battled with local universities and undermined major economic sectors like biotech via federal policy changes and funding cuts. In response, Healey has used her office to push back hard on Trump . But ...